From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:36:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106203641.GA4575@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090106193116.GA8188@math.princeton.edu>
090106 Willie Wong wrote:
> you may want to change the root line to "root=purslow",
> so the mail gets sent to purslow instead of postmaster
> (which according to /etc/mail/aliases becomes root again).
That doesn't work, but adding '> /dev/null' or '-s' in crontab does.
The latter seems simpler, so that's what I've done.
It doesn't explain why the problem suddenly arose last Sunday
after I made a simple editing change in .fetchmailrc
& nothing like this had happened before
with the same crontab & ssmtp.conf : perhaps there's an obscure bug,
but the irritating problem has been resolved & I have other jobs today.
Thanks for the helpful advice (smile).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 16:42 [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem Philip Webb
2009-01-05 17:06 ` Willie Wong
2009-01-05 18:04 ` Philip Webb
2009-01-05 18:18 ` Willie Wong
2009-01-05 22:28 ` Philip Webb
2009-01-06 0:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-01-06 10:26 ` Philip Webb
2009-01-06 16:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Willie Wong
2009-01-06 17:05 ` Willie Wong
2009-01-06 18:22 ` Philip Webb
2009-01-06 19:31 ` Willie Wong
2009-01-06 20:36 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2009-01-06 21:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-01-07 18:20 ` [gentoo-user] Re: weird cron mail problem: basically solved Philip Webb
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